Policeman’s Killer Loses Appeal, Is Executed
From Times Wire Reports
A convicted police killer was executed in Columbia hours after he lost his final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the way South Carolina puts inmates to death is unusually cruel.
David Clayton Hill, 39, recited a Bible verse, looked at witnesses and then gazed upward as he received a lethal injection. He died less than two minutes later.
Hill was convicted of killing Police Maj. Spencer Guerry during a traffic stop 10 years ago.
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